@Smokin Joe
@roamer_1
@The Ghost
Well, guys, it never dawned on me that we have to provide Kevlar for kids to go to school and hopefully not get killed due to having a Kevlar backpack. I was a psychological examiner/counselor for years at public schools, and the subject of staying alive by using Kevlar backpacks was never brought up, mainly because they were not being killed.
No one is safe in this country anymore. This country has gone to the times of Noah, and the Bible says when that happens, Christ is coming back. If you haven't read what the times of Noah was like, read it and I'm serious about that. Send me a PM what you think after reading it. You know the two of you and I are buddies, and The Ghost and I are church buddies.
Go to Genesis and read about Noah before the flood. It is said there what the peoples of the earth were doing.
As a survivor of race riots in High School (No "American Grafiti" for us) I guess all I see there is that now schools are free fire zones (before, teachers and others who were responsible sheepdogs could be armed), and that people are taking advantage of the regulatory establishment of such free fire zones to perpetrate their insanity.
We never assumed anything or anywhere was safe, but that might have been because we were a fire department family (All but one of us served as Volunteer EMS or Firemen--mom included, and the 'holdout' worked in counter-terrorism in a federal agency).
Sorry, but safety is an illusion, at best provided by situational awareness and the ability to respond in a meaningful fashion. Life isn't safe, no one gets out alive.
But you can stack the deck in favor of living longer.
When, on another thread, I suggested a year of classes in Standard and Advanced First Aid, CPR, hunter safety, and driver's ED, (all that could be packed into a year class), I wasn't kidding, although gender studies is likely seen as more important by school administrators. It would be something that, while it might not necessarily make the world a safer place, would make the individual's chances of surviving in it better.
Yes, Christ will return, but in the meantime, we are made more aware of the problems around us as those who commit those actions are less bashful about their particular behaviour. There is much we can do to survive that, and kevlar panels in backpacks are just one more possible defense.
That Schumer would want to ban such passive means of survival only indicates that when the SHTF someplace he wants a higher body count, to use for political gain. What happened to "If it saves just one life..."? It's gone from the mantra of the people who want to take our means of self-defense.